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The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security


by Andrew Conry-Murray, Vincent Weafer

Protect Yourself! Easy, Step-by-Step Help from the WorldÕs Most Trusted Security Provider

The Internet is crawling with risks; if you bank or shop online, or even just surf the Web and send e-mail, you are exposed to hackers, thieves, and con artists. TodayÕs bad guys donÕt need to pick your locks or break your windows: they can attack you and your family over the Internet. Are you prepared? Enjoy a safer online experience with easy, step-by-step help from Symantec, the worldÕs most trusted security provider.

This easy-to-understand book helps protect you against Internet threats. Written specifically for nontechnical computer users, youÕll learn simple ways to keep you and your family safe and secure while online.

Andrew Conry-Murray is the technology editor at IT Architect, an award-winning publication for information technology professionals. He has been writing about computer and network security since 2000.

Vincent Weafer has an extensive range of experience, gained from more than 20 years in the information technology industry, ranging from software development, systems engineering, to security research positions. For the past eight years, he has been the operational leader of the Symantec Global Security Response team, where his mission is to advance the research into new computer security threats and provide security content solutions such as anti-virus, antispam, intrusion and vulnerability response, real-time alerting, content solutions, research, and analysis. Weafer has also been one of SymantecÕs main spokespeople on Internet security threats and trends, with national and international press and broadcast media, appearing on CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, and BBC, among many others.

The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security
by Andrew Conry-Murray, Vincent Weafer - List Price: $ 19.99, Price: $ 13.59 You Save: $6.40 (32%) Paperback: 240 pages; Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (August 24, 2005); English

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